My love for knives, and my fiancée's slow but steady understanding and appreciation.

[sabre cat]

Sounds like she has come a long way. Consider yourself lucky.

At first, my wife did not see a need for a knife outside the kitchen. Now days, she has a SAK in her car and another on her key ring. It has only taken about ten years to get that far.

 

[rschuch]

My wife actually started my obsession and got me my first Case trapperlock. She has her own Case with a hoofpick (she rides horses). Now, several years and 80 knives down the road after that first knife, while I don't think she "approves" of the horde (she did at first), she can't complain because she started it!